#kuril islands

[castelnou]

onekotan island

kuril islands (russia)

#onekotan island #kuril islands #russia

[thepastisalreadywritten]

This is what an erupting volcano looks like from space.

📽: NASA Johnson

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A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev Volcano (Kuril Islands, northeast from Hokkaido in Japan to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia) in an early stage of eruption on 12 June 2009.

Sarychev Peak is one of the most active volcanoes in the Kuril Island chain, and it is located on the northwestern end of Matua Island.

Prior to June 12, the last explosive eruption occurred in 1989, with eruptions in 1986, 1976, 1954, and 1946 also producing lava flows.

Ash from the multi-day eruption has been detected 2,407 kilometers east-southeast and 926 kilometers west-northwest of the volcano.

Commercial airline flights are being diverted away from the region to minimize the danger of engine failures from ash intake.

This detailed astronaut photograph is exciting to volcanologists because it captures several phenomena that occur during the earliest stages of an explosive volcanic eruption.

The main column is one of a series of plumes that rose above Matua Island on June 12.

The plume appears to be a combination of brown ash and white steam. The vigorously rising plume gives the steam a bubble-like appearance.

In contrast, the smooth white cloud on top may be water condensation that resulted from rapid rising and cooling of the air mass above the ash column.

This cloud, which meteorologists call a pileus cloud, is probably a transient feature: the eruption plume is starting to punch through.

The structure also indicates that little to no shearing wind was present at the time to disrupt the plume.

(Satellite images acquired 2-3 days after the start of activity illustrate the effect of shearing winds on the spread of the ash plumes across the Pacific Ocean.)

By contrast, a cloud of denser, gray ash — probably a pyroclastic flow — appears to be hugging the ground, descending from the volcano summit.

The rising eruption plume casts a shadow to the northwest of the island.

Brown ash at a lower altitude of the atmosphere spreads out above the ground at image lower left.

Low-level stratus clouds approach Matua Island from the east, wrapping around the lower slopes of the volcano.

Only about 1.5 kilometers of the coastline of Matua Island are visible beneath the clouds and ash.

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

#volcano #space #NASA #International Space Station #Sarychev Volcano #Sarychev Peak #Matua Island #volcanologist #volcanology #volcanic eruption #meteorologist #pyroclastic flow #Kuril Islands #Japan #Russia

[ukrainenews]

Daily Wrap Up December 6, 2022

Under the cut:

Ukrainian embassies have received more “bloody packages”, according to its foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, in what Kyiv has described as a “campaign of terror and intimidation”. Over the past week, Ukraine said its diplomatic missions in countries across Europe had been targeted with packages soaked in liquid with a distinctive smell and containing animals’ eyes. Kuleba said Ukraine’s embassies in Romania and Denmark received such packages today.

Norway to allocate 14.5 million euros to military assistance for Ukraine. Norway’s government said it would supply Ukraine with 55,000 units of winter clothing, an M109 self-propelled howitzer, spare parts for military equipment repairs, individual first-aid kits, and 30,000 field rations.

Russia’s defense ministry said Monday it has deployed mobile coastal defense missile systems on a northern Kuril island, part of a strategically located chain of islands that stretch between Japan and the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula. Japan lays claim to the Russian-held southern Kuril islands, which Tokyo calls the Northern Territories, a territorial row that dates to the end of World War Two, when Soviet troops seized them from Japan.

Russian and Ukrainian authorities have confirmed the exchange of 120 people in a prisoner swap.

“Ukrainian embassies have received more “bloody packages”, according to its foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, in what Kyiv has described as a “campaign of terror and intimidation”.

Over the past week, Ukraine said its diplomatic missions in countries across Europe had been targeted with packages soaked in liquid with a distinctive smell and containing animals’ eyes. Kuleba said Ukraine’s embassies in Romania and Denmark received such packages today.

As of Friday, Ukraine said 17 embassies had been targeted, indicating that another was delivered on Saturday. Ukraine’s foreign ministry said the packages had been delivered to its embassies in Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Croatia and Italy, to general consulates in Naples and Kraków, and the consulate in Brno in the Czech Republic.

On Monday, Spanish police said they had intercepted three more envelopes containing animal eyes addressed to Ukraine’s embassy in Madrid and its consulates in Barcelona and Málaga.

A Ukrainian embassy employee in Madrid was injured on Wednesday by a letter bomb, which was addressed to Ukraine’s ambassador to Spain. A further four letter bombs were sent on Wednesday to addresses in Spain, including to a Spanish arms manufacturer that has produced rockets donated to Ukraine, as well as Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the US embassy in Madrid.

In an interview with CNN on Friday, Kuleba described what followed the Madrid attack as “more weird” and “even sick”.

Asked who he thought was behind the packages, Kuleba said he “feels tempted to name Russia” as it benefits from sowing fear among Ukrainian diplomats. But he added that it could also be someone who sympathises with Russia, so he would await the findings of ongoing investigations.”-via The Guardian

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“Norway will make a voluntary financial contribution to the European Union Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine, according to the Council of the European Union. “Norway’s financial support…will give an additional boost to train and equip the Ukrainian Armed Forces as they continue their courageous fight against the Russian aggression,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.

The EU military assistance mission was established on Oct. 17 to provide individual, collective and specialized training to Ukraine’s Armed Forces. The mission aims to train up to 15,000 Ukrainian servicemen on the territory of EU member states.

On Nov. 25, Norway’s government said it would supply Ukraine with 55,000 units of winter clothing, an M109 self-propelled howitzer, spare parts for military equipment repairs, individual first-aid kits, and 30,000 field rations.”-via Kyiv Independent

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“Montenegro will donate 11% of its military budget to Ukraine, the prime minister's office said Monday.

The donation, along with "receiving thousands of refugees," shows the Montenegrin government’s "clear determination to support the defence of Ukrainians," the statement from the Office of the Prime Minister of Montenegro Dritan Abazović said.

The terms were agreed by Abazović and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who signed a joint declaration on Monday, according to Zelensky’s Telegram channel.

"Today, we signed the Joint Declaration, which defines the priority areas of cooperation between Ukraine and Montenegro within the strategic course of our country to acquire full membership in NATO," Zelensky said in the Telegram post.

"I am grateful to Montenegro for the strong political support and important practical help to Ukraine," he added. Abazović said on Twitter that Montenegro "wants peace."

"That is why we express our unequivocal support for Ukraine and its people with a view to safeguarding their integrity, sovereignty and right to a free life," added Abazović.”-via CNN

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“Russia’s defense ministry said Monday it has deployed mobile coastal defense missile systems on a northern Kuril island, part of a strategically located chain of islands that stretch between Japan and the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula.

Japan lays claim to the Russian-held southern Kuril islands, which Tokyo calls the Northern Territories, a territorial row that dates to the end of World War Two, when Soviet troops seized them from Japan.

The Russian Bastion systems, which have missiles with a flight range of up to 500 km (310 miles), were deployed on the island of Paramushir, the Russian defense ministry said Monday.

“Coastal servicemen of the Pacific Fleet will keep a round-the-clock watch to control the adjacent water area and strait zones,” it said.”-via CNN

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“Russian and Ukrainian authorities have confirmed the exchange of 120 people in a prisoner swap.

According to the Russian defense ministry, 60 Russian servicemen have been returned from "Kyiv-controlled territory."

Returned soldiers will be treated and rehabilitated at the defense ministry's facilities, it said.

Ukraine will receive 60 prisoners in return, said Andrii Yermak, head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, on Telegram.

"This is the best news on the holiday," said Yermak. Of the total, there are 58 men and two women, with 14 prisoners captured during the siege of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol.

Details surrounding the timing of the swap and location have not been released.”-via CNN

#Daily update #Ukraine #Russia #War in Ukraine #Norway #kuril islands

[dendeniel]

Japan does not want to sign a peace treaty with Russia — Tokyo still hopes to resolve the issue of the southern part of the Kuril Islands

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that he sees no conditions for discussing the prospects of concluding a peace treaty with Russia. According to him, the situation in relations between Tokyo and Moscow remains extremely difficult.

At the same time, he said that Japan's policy to resolve the issue with the Kuril Islands and conclude a peace treaty has not changed — Tokyo can sign the document, but probably does not want to. Kishida also stressed that it is difficult to imagine Japan's relations with Russia.

#JAPAN #TOKYO #kuril islands #RUSSIA #WAR #RUSSIA JAPAN WAR

[ghassanmk]

Kurils-2022 by Eugene Kaspersky

#russia #kuril islands #flickr

[kvetch19]

Kuril Islands

#kuril islands #pacific #pacific ocean #islands

[pacific-rimbaud]

🤙

#touching grass (figurative) #no I do not surf #literally nothing between here and the Kuril Islands #I love a great big woman (ocean) who doesn't care if I live or die (blues song for a blue planet)

[captain-price-unofficially]

Soviet Marines posing in front of a destroyed Type-95 Ha-Go tank on the Island of Shumshu. August, 1945

#wwii #Ha-Go #tanks #japanese tanks #japanese armor #Invasion of the Kuril Islands #Soviet-Japanese War #Pacific theater #august

[moved-heating-your-rubbish]

older works but I still like them

Żardow-Zarykhin moment

also known as ,,a handless war veteran whose wife died takes care of his twins and dies of sadness when they end up killing eachother,,

I love Sergiusz he did nothing wrong <//3

But his children Bazyli and Fiodor (wow how original/s) did it for him,, but basically Bazyli is a piece of shit and a traitor and his brother casually murdered him out of rage when they reunited <3 and since I'm a dramatic bitch he killed him by biting out his heart while he was in his bird form

Also they're of a race that's called Niewidy ,, and Niewidy are like humans but with good resistance for incredibly low temperatures(some of them have ice powers but only those related to Filemon Bazyliusz Żardow-zarykhin because he forced it our from their deity creator known as Blizbor/Brzezdoma) and they can shapeshift Into birds , but the thing is they cannot be seen by other non-niewidy or they'll die (the exception is if they're in life threatening danger but they layer have to be sure noone else will know)

Bazyli is a bitch because ✨ when he was in highschool he was an awesome ballet dancer and on one union olympics he met one really enthusiastic polish journalist Świętosława (and they fell in love obv), then rbeh got married and had son named Franciszek (Bazyli calls him Vostok but it doesn't have any deep lore because this character's first name was just West and then he was morphed into being bazyli's son). And wow they have amazing/s life but then Franciszek tells his parents he's expecting a child with his girlfriend (they're both 17) and Bazyli is deeply unimpressed

And it was in that moment he realised he hates his current life and feels nothing towards his wife,, and then zsrr falls apart and Świętosława is depressed and loses her job and shit happens

So as a good/s husband he sets their house on fire and runs away to The Empire (country ruled by funny fire people that doesn't have a name still) and he's a ,,peace guard,, (violent military police guy), he has a good life there due to his powers and relation to Filemon (Bazyli isn't aware of because Filly left his wife and ran away and they never heard of it,, also Filemon is bazyli's grand grand father).

Bazyli then proceeds to fall in love with rulers of important political organisation Golden Hornets whose surname is Toruyama (they're Yoru's In-laws ) and they live happy polyamorous life of Pensioners /j

But when shit falls apart Fiodor somehow finds his brother and kills him because fuck that bitch

Also fun fact: their mother suffered from schizophrenia and being pregnant only worsened her health and she died while being in psychiatric hospital because of bad treatment,, and Fiodor fell i to addictive tendencies in his early 20s/late teens and his genes came out

but he menaged to get well and found himself a lovely wife Vanka :^^D(she was nurse who took care of him , and she became nurse because her Orphanage was next to a hospital and she was in orphanage because she was in fact Yugoslavian child who was taken away ,, and it causes some issues later in their marriage)

and their theme songs are Powrót and Anhelli by Gintrowski and Прекрасное далеко (that version from that one evangelion AMV but i can't find it😭)

Their story needs so many alterations because I'm still too afraid to sit down and make everything historically accurate but that's a rundown of what happens without bigger elaborating

Also Bazyli is a pagan and his father had heart attack when he saw his necklaces because he thought they were related to German svastika lmao

And bazyli's best friend is this bitch Sjęgnjewa Seler who had religious trauma, killed a guy and run away to forest and now lives as this weird cryptic pseudo witch ,, but she eventually met Blizbor and they're in love because women,,,,,,, and Blizbor is a deity that just travels from forest to forest through the whole Slavic Europe

Also Niewidy are really pale but in inhuman way and they get gray when they tan so they have to be really careful lmao ,, and they came to life because of peace pact Brzezdoma had with Leviathan (one of,,gods,, in this universe) but I won't elaborate

#it's 3am bur i need this shit written down somewhere #actually i wanted to make them to be from Kuril Islands because i met tbis person wbo was really into zsrr gisrory and i got so fucking #so fucking scared #im paranoid when it comes ro judgement #and I'm often convinced everuone ks better than me #but rhen i was like fuck it im nor going to change it only because of some bitch i hardly even talk to #character development ig #original character #heatsu oc #heatsu art #watercolor #urban fantasy #story #story making #rambling #also Sergiusz was a tank mechanician #or something like thag #and he met his wife while recovering from having his hand crushed to unrecognisable mass✌️ #he really struggles in being a single father but hes doing his best and he's winning in it ✌️ #unironically one of thw best fathwr figures I've created #hes also a really good person #i don't think he lives kong enough to witness bazyli's death #but like his son killing his twin is rje worst thing thag could ever happen to him because he loves both of rhem equally #and he just loves them so much awuhhhhsjnbmmmmsm #i should go to sleep #Spotify

[russianreader]

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#1420 by Daniil Orain (YouTube channel) #Alexei Navalny #brainwashing #Daniil Orain (Russian vlogger) #Kaliningrad #Karelia #Kurile Islands #Russian public opinion #Vladimir Putin #vox pop

[expressions-of-nature]

Onekotan, Kuril Islands by Alexander Kukrinov

#landscape #volcano #island #wildflowers #seasons #winter #spring #sunset #nature #curators on tumblr #travel #uploads

[sovietpostcards]

"November on Shikotan" by Oleg Loshakov (1982)

(Shikotan is an island in the Kurils)

#soviet art #1980s

[magpiecrown]

meet Selene! although you’ve already met her

an unofficial leader of her village, Selene is a baker who moonlights as a werebear to prowl the forests around her village and make sure no scourged animals shamble too close. her thick hide protects her from their bites and scratches.

she goes to eliminate what appears to be a scourged deer carrying a reanimated head, but then the deer stands up on it’s too-thin legs and talks in a way that almost sounds human. that - and the fact that the dead head talks too - gives Selene pause. so she brings them to the village.

it’s a brief reprieve for Agonist, stuck between two world that don’t want him, and a first experience of human kindness although he isn’t in a place where he can internalize or even really accept it.

they try to separate Bane’s head from him but find the antlers fused together. Selene guesses that soon enough Agonist will shed his antlers, but something doesn’t feel quite right.

EDIT: forgot to mention that she is a brown bear with the same coat mutation as the Kuril islands population! look it up they are very cute

#artists on tumblr #digital art #deer art #furry #art #oc: agonist #oc: bane #oc: selene #verse: deer #my art

[ghassanmk]

Kurils-2022 by Eugene Kaspersky

#russia #kuril islands #flickr

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

Ainu, Indigenous people of Japan

The Ainu are an ethnic group of related indigenous peoples native to northern Japan, including Hokkaido and Northeast Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai; they have occupied these areas known to them as "Ainu Mosir" (Ainu: アイヌモシㇼ, lit. 'the land of the Ainu'), since before the arrival of the modern Japanese and Russians. These regions are often referred to as Ezo (蝦夷) in historical Japanese texts. X

#ainu #indigenous #japan #Hokkaido #Japanese #asia #ethnic groups #vintage #history

[yoga-onion]

[Photo above: an Ainu woman in 1920s]

Legends and myths about trees

Forest spirits and natives (4)

Korpokkur (or Korbokkur) – ‘People under the butterbur leaves’

Korpokkur are the tribes of dwarfs in folklore of the Ainu people of the northern Japanese islands, meaning 'people under the butterbur leaves'.

The Ainu believe that the korpokkur were the people who lived in the Ainu's land before the Ainu themselves lived there. They were short of stature, agile, and skilled at fishing. They lived in pits with roofs made from butterbur leaves.

Long ago, the korpokkur were on good terms with the Ainu, and would send them deer, fish, and other game and exchange goods with them. The little people hated to be seen, however, so they would stealthily make their deliveries under the cover of night.

One day, a young Ainu man decided he wanted to see a korpokkur for himself, so he waited in ambush by the window where their gifts were usually left. When a korpokkur came to place something there, the young man grabbed it by the hand and dragged it inside. It turned out to be a beautiful korpokkur woman with a tattoo on the back of her hand (the tattooing of Ainu women is said to be based on this). She was so enraged at the young man's rudeness that her people have not been seen since. Their pits, pottery, and stone implements, the Ainu believe, still remain scattered about the landscape.

[History of Ainu]

The Ainu are an indigenous people from Sakhalin in the north to the Kuril Islands and Kamchatka Peninsula in the north-east and around the northern Japanese archipelago, especially in Hokkaido. The Ainu have long had an economic zone around the Sea of Okhotsk region.

They worshipped bears and wolves, as well as gods embodied in the elements of nature, such as water, fire and wind.

Ainu is the Ainu language for 'human' and is believed to have originally meant 'human' as a concept as opposed to 'kamui' (a designation referring to nature based on the spirit that everything in nature has a heart).

The Ainu people were conquered and their land confiscated by neighbouring Japan and Russia between the 15th and 18th centuries. Later, in the 19th century, forced them to convert, apply their customs and belong. During the Soviet era, hundreds of Ainu were executed or forcibly relocated. Today, the population and the Ainu language are in decline and there are revival efforts for their traditional culture.

木にまつわる伝説・神話

森の精霊たちと原住民 (4)

コロポックル (又はコロボックル) 〜「蕗の葉の下の人々」

コロボックルは、アイヌ語で「蕗の葉の下の人」という意味を持つ、アイヌに伝わる小人族のこと。

アイヌがこの土地に住み始める前から、この土地にはコロボックルという種族が住んでいた。彼らは背丈が低く、動きがすばやく、漁に巧みであった。又屋根をフキの葉で葺いた竪穴にすんでいた。

昔、コロボックルはアイヌと仲が良く、鹿や魚などの獲物を送ってもらったり、品物を交換したりしていた。しかし、小人たちは人目につくのを嫌い、夜陰に紛れてこっそりと配達していた。

ある日、アイヌの青年がコロボックルを一目見たいと思い、いつも贈り物を差し入れる窓際で待ち伏せしていた。そのコロボックルがそこに何かを置こうとすると、青年はそれを手で掴んで屋内に引きずり込んだ。すると、それは美しい女性のなりをしておりその手の甲には刺青があったという (なおアイヌの婦人のする刺青はこれにならったものであるといわれている)。コロボックルは青年の無礼に激怒し、一族を挙げて北の海の彼方へと去ってしまった。以降、アイヌの人々はコロボックルの姿を見ることはなくなったという。現在でも土地のあちこちに残る竪穴や地面を掘ると出てくる石器や土器は、彼らがかつてこの土地にいた名残である。

[アイヌの歴���]

アイヌ民族は、北は樺太から北東の千島列島・カムチャツカ（勘察加）半島、日本列島北部周辺、とりわけ北海道の先住民族である。アイヌ民族は永くオホーツク海地域一帯に経済圏を有していた。彼らは、熊やオオカミ、さらに水、火、風といった自然の要素に具現化された神を崇拝していた。

アイヌとはアイヌ語で「人間」を意味する言葉で、もともとは「カムイ」(自然界の全てのものに心があるという精神に基づいて自然を指す呼称) に対する概念としての「人間」という意味であったとされている。

アイヌ民族は、15世紀から18世紀にかけて、近隣国の日本とロシアに征服され、土地を没収された。その後、19世紀には改宗、慣習の適用、帰属を余儀なくされた。ソ連時代には数百人のアイヌが処刑されたり、強制移住させられた。現在、人口やアイヌ語は減少しつつあり、伝統文化の復興に向けた取り組みが行われている。

#trees #tree legend #tree myth #forest spirit #nature worship #ainu #drawf #koropokkur #hokkaido #sea of okhotsk #kamchatka peninsula #folklore #legend #mythology #nature #art